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Born in May 1938, Imre Foldi had a challenging childhood and teenage years, but became the greatest-ever Hungarian weightlifter and arguably one of the best in our sports’ history. Having lost his mother during World War II, he works as a miner and his extraordinary strength is quickly noticed.
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On September 17, 2000 the weightlifting family was in a celebratory mode at the Sydney Olympics. On that day, after more than 100 years only with male participation, the Games presented the first-ever female competition, the women’s 48kg category.
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The Weightlifting Federation of Africa (WFA) held its electoral congress on April 22, 2025 in Mauritius and unanimously re-elected Mr Khaled Mehalhel for a new term until 2029. In a significant display of unity...
International Weightlifting Federation
The Weightlifting Federation of Africa (WFA) held its electoral congress on April 22, 2025 in Mauritius and unanimously re-elected Mr Khaled Mehalel for a new term until 2029. In a significant display of unity...
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Olympic champions Karlos Nasar and Solfrid Koanda were the top individual performers at the 2025 European Championships in Chishinau, Moldova which finished this week. Seven other Paris Olympians were among the winners.
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Together with the Snatch, the Clean & Jerk is one of the two basic lifts in Olympic weightlifting. Considered in the early days a rudimentary test of strength, it became a highly technical movement...
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Before arriving in Tokyo, for his second Olympic participation in 1964, Waldemar Baszanowski was already a distinguished athlete in Poland. After winning the 1961 world title in Vienna (AUT) and getting two additional silver medals in 1962 (Budapest...
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It is certainly one of the funniest and most remembered images of the weightlifting competition at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games: in the women’s 81kg, Solfrid Koanda wins the gold for Norway, but always in her “bubble” and “protected” by her coaches regarding the progress of the event...
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1920 is an important date, both for the Olympic Movement and for the IWF. After the horror of World War I (leading to the cancellation of the 1916 edition), the Games were staged in Antwerp. Belgium, with the participation of 29 nations (only one more than in 1912).
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After winning his third consecutive gold medal at the Games, Halil Mutlu (TUR) entered in 2004 in the very “exclusive” club of the lifters with three Olympic titles. Born in July 1973 in Bulgaria, he starts to be noticed at the beginning of the 1990s...
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The presence of weightlifting at the Games reflects the evolution of the sport in the five continents, the status of our International Federation in the Olympic Movement, and is even determined by the location of the biggest sports event on the planet.
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It is normally a feat associated with strong countries in the Olympic arena, those winning many dozens of medals in a single edition of the Games: to place two of their athletes on the podium within a difference of hours.
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The first day of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games was on and among the weightlifters it was the moment of the weigh-in for the initial category (men’s 60kg) of the competition, to be held the following day.
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Her tiny morphology (she is 1.58m high) hides a strong woman and a hero in the Philippines: Hidilyn Diaz. Initiated in the sport of weightlifting almost by accident – through one of her cousins, after trying basketball and volleyball ...
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